"A World Eater?" Jake still clearly remembered the shock that had washed over him when he heard the term.
He thought he had heard it mentioned at least once by his mentor, but it hadn't fazed him much at the time. In a way, if one considered a world to be a planet like Earth, then Jake was perfectly capable of bearing such a title.
But hearing the term again today made his stomach briefly clench, giving it a new, more ominous meaning. If a World Eater, whatever it was, could threaten a world-plane as massive as the corpse containing Twyluxia, then it was a creature at least as formidable as an Ancient Designer.
He was wrong. The truth was even more surreal than he could have imagined. Because on the scale of the multiverse's heavyweights, a 'World' was...
